Does this site do history sniffing or participate in any way whatsoever with sites that do? If so, I hope it will let us know and ask that it stop that activity.

Source: FoxNews
SAN FRANCISCO  Dozens of websites have been secretly harvesting lists of places that their users previously visited online, everything from news articles to bank sites to pornography, a team of computer scientists found.
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Current versions of the Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers still allow this, as do older versions of Chrome and Safari, the researchers said.

I too have noticed a major upswing in Norton 360 detecting cookies and intrusion attempts since joining this site. Norton 360 is secure so I never gave it mnuch more thought, but perhaps the site admin might have a look at this and see if it is being added by the server or where it is coming from. Surely the admin/owner is not mining this info and it is happening at some level beyond them. Good eye, John.
Bob

I've installed Opera. That part went smoothly, and I can get most settings in a way that is comfortable, if not the same as they were with Firefox. One difference, when I click on a desktop icon that links to an Internet site, I get this error:

Windows cannot find '<linkname>'. Make sure you typed the name correctly...

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There is an OK button. I can either close the error box or hit OK and everything works as expected. Any idea what causes that or how to get rid of it? (I tried synchronization with no effect.)

I've installed Opera. That part went smoothly, and I can get most settings in a way that is comfortable, if not the same as they were with Firefox. One difference, when I click on a desktop icon that links to an Internet site, I get this error:

There is an OK button. I can either close the error box or hit OK and everything works as expected. Any idea what causes that or how to get rid of it? (I tried synchronization with no effect.)

John

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I dunno, I have not had a problem.

A real cool option in Opera is MOUSE GESTURES.

You surf with no keyboard.

For instance, to go back a page, you hold the right mouse button and click the left.

To forward, hold left button and click right.

There are MANY more. It really makes searching, surfing, and stuff a breeze.

To open a new tab, you hold left, drag down, release, its that kind of cool stuff.
If you do the above on a link, it opens the new tab with the linked page.

It may have a "call" for another program, that requires firefox to read.

I am not sure.

I dunno, I have not had a problem.

A real cool option in Opera is MOUSE GESTURES.

You surf with no keyboard.

For instance, to go back a page, you hold the right mouse button and click the left.

To forward, hold left button and click right.

There are MANY more. It really makes searching, surfing, and stuff a breeze.

To open a new tab, you hold left, drag down, release, its that kind of cool stuff.
If you do the above on a link, it opens the new tab with the linked page.

I am comparing Firefox to Opera. When I added Adblock Plus to Firefox (yesterday), there was a note that the compatibility bug had been fixed. I'm running Firefox 2.6.12 and Adblock seems to be working.